This narrative of Yacoob Omar, one of South Africa's finest Black2 cricketers during the apartheid era, is more than a story about cricket. As Guha has pointed out: sport is a relational idiom, a sphere of activity which expresses, in concentrated forms, the values, prejudices, divisions and unifying symbols of a society… Sport is a microcosm of the fissures and tensions of a deeply divided society: fissures that it both reflects and plays upon, mitigates as well as intensifies. 3 The life of Yacoob Omar provides a valuable lens through …